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10 of the greatest composers who broke the law

Beethoven composer letters

Letters of the great composers: 14 moving, funny and inspiring quotations from the documents they left behind

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Famous composers' mothers

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Great composer muses

Meet the muses of the great composers

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classical music on stamps

The most beautiful classical music postage stamps

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Fidelio in space Opera de Lyon

Beethoven's Fidelio on a spaceship at Opéra de Lyon

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Portrait Ludwig van Beethoven when composing the Missa Solemnis', 1820.

Beethoven’s unfinished tenth symphony to be completed by artificial intelligence
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Brexiteer threatens to boycott Three Choirs Festival over EU anthem ‘Ode to Joy’
Brexiteers turn their backs on the EU anthem

Brexit Party MEPs turn their backs on Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ in protest against EU

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Alice Sara Ott Beethoven

Current obsession: this descending scale in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1

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Crescendo asset

We reckon this is the all-time greatest crescendo in classical music (there will be goosebumps)
Beethoven and Elisabeth Röckel

What is the meaning of Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ – and who was Elise?

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new releases 30th july

New releases: Irnberger and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play Beethoven and Rachmaninov with Martin Jones
new releases 1st may

New releases: Beethoven with the Royal Northern Sinfonia & Lars Vogt and 'Strauss in St Petersburg'
new releases 10th april

New releases: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Brahms and Beethoven with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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John Lennon inspired by Beethoven

This John Lennon song is based on Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata
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So if Beethoven was completely deaf, how did he compose?

Beethoven in Havana

Someone has turned this Beethoven symphony into an extraordinary Cuban rumba